Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-17

provided for, although In much different
way from what she desired at the outset
Of the trial.
GENERAL TYLER FALLS INTO THE TRAP
The fortunes of the lawyers VINO ii Z
ured in the case have also been checker
ed. George Washington Tyler was SArah's
chief counsel during the early part Of the
trial. He conducted the examination oil
all the witnesses in the case; he bsdgeTed
them as witnesses have seldom been Wor-
ried in court before. In appearance he
bears strong resemblance to bulldog,
and when be is aroused his hair hes the
peculiarly Of standing up on end. As
he fell into rage with nearly every wit
ness, the result Was that be YVES ferO-
cio1s spectacle. Timld witnesses he
alarmed; obstinate witnesses he angered ;
peliurers he turned inside out, and sfCer
a days proceeding the court was meta
| phoricsllv Uttered with the msngled re-
mains Of his victims. He was especially Sc
we're on one OF the experts in hAndWrit-
ing, who, after few minutes batting by
| Tyler, usually became so demoraliZed
] that he could not make lucid answer.
Tyler preserved his reputation for fair
ness very We'll till near the close OF trial,
| when he cOncocted 8 spurious dOCumen i,
purp0rting to be an agreement between
| himself and one OF the experts to give
| testimony in favor of Sarah for a certain
sum. This document Tyler's clerk, one
Mclaughlin, represented to General
Barnes, Sharon's leading counsel, as
genuine, and offered to sell it. Barnes
jumped st the bait. Mclaughlin rose in
mis- demands from $500 to $4,000, and
this snug sum was paid in crisp $500
bills to the ingenious clerk. When
Barnes produced in court this costly
document he read it with impress
slVe effect and supplemented it
With caustic comment on legal Chicanery,
only to be overcome by Tyler's hu-
morous account OF the preparation of the
bogus contract. Barnes not only lost
prestige, but he lost the $4,000 which
he paid for the document, the matter
haYing been personal speculation with
him. In revenge he vowed to break Ty-
Ter, and he broke him. He tried to con-
meet Tyler with the $780, which he had
paid, but failed. Then he began still
hunt for people whom Tyler had sWindled
in his long and variegated career. Tyler
had been miner up in SiskiYou county,
near the Oregon line. He was not a good
miner, but ne was the champion poker
player of his district. He unfortunately
applied the methods of this popu-
lar western game to law, and
Barnes found little trouble in Sc
curing old clients of Tyler who had been
ill-treated By hin. So one day q suit
WAS brought to disbar Tyler by man
who claimed that Tyler had converted to
his own uses $500 of his money. The
man proved his case, and Tyler was dis
barred by superior court Judge for two
years. But Tyler is fighter, and he at
once appealed to the Supreme court.
The Supreme court knocked him out by
making the disbarment perpetual. So
SSrah's leading attorney does his legal
business outside of The courts. He eX-
pected to get $50, 600 IN fees and one-half
Of the proceeds of what Sarah should Sc
cure from Sharon. In reality he lost
about $4,000 Of his own money, put up for
court fees, and he lost all opportunity TO
badger any more with esses in California
courts.
ANOTHER LAWYER LOSES PRESTIGE.
OF eX Senator Shsron's six counsel,
General w. 81. L. Barnes is the most
conspicuous. It was estimated that
Barnes at the outset of the Sharon case
had practice worth 100000 year. He
was retained by many large corporations,
and, In addition, was in great request as
q pieader in the courts. He is not so
well read in the law as score OF men
who might be mentioned in San Francis
co, but he has great art in presenting
case. Sharon retained him because of
personal friendship and great admiration
for his snowy qualities. The selection
was unfortunate, 0s the unanimous
Judgment Of lawyers was that the case
mad not been we'll handled. Barnes con-
Guiding speech, read from typewriter
copy, was long drawn out and weak
His entrapment by Tyler in the
Mclaughlin incident hurt him seriously,
and during the nine months that he was
forced to give up entirely TO the Sharon
case, he lost great deal of his general
practice. He is recovering some OF this
gradually, but he can never recover his
lost prestige. So, like most of the others
engaged in this extraordinary case, he
lost instead Of gaining by his connection
with it.
He recently came into notoriety by his
bitter fight with old DR.. Mcdonald, the
maker of the original 'sVinegar Bitters,"
who has now settled down into temper
apce advocate and q bank president
Med Donald bought piece of property &C
joining Barnes residence, and insisted
on building windows on the party line,
overlooking Barnes yard. The lawyer
ordered him to close up his windows.
He bluntly refused, whereupon Barnes
built twenty fge-foot fence along
the whole party line, which very
effectuslly closed the doctors windows
The bad blood engendered by this Incl
dent came out in recent divorce suit of
young Mrs. Mcdonald against her hus-
band, the son of the old doctor. Barnes
is her counsel, and the proceedings in the
case suggested by him have already cost
both the mcDonalds infinite annoyance.
AN AUSTRALIAN ADvENTURER.
a conspicuous character in the case
was w. M. Nelson, an Australian adven-
turer, who started out as Sarah's COM
psnion and confidential adviser. Nelson
is man Of great deal of ability, who
rose to high position in the colony of
Victoria, bat was disgraced by . financial
scandal, which he always claimed
was a device of his enemies
to get rid of him. He was forced
to resign from the Victorian Parlia-
ment. and ne came to this city. Whether
justly or unjustly, he acquired a bad
renutatiOn. so that when he aDDesred in